Orkney Voles!....From 'Emergence' Magazine.....
by Bernie Bell - 17:02 on 15 December 2025
Orkney Voles!.....
Mike started strimming the meadow and raking the grass into heaps at the end of October. Due to weather and other circumstances…the heaps have been sitting there for a while. He’s now making one big heap, hopefully to go to our neighbours pigs before too long.
When he moved one of the heaps he found some vole runs, and even saw a vole scurrying along one!....
We’re sorry to have disturbed their safe place but presumably they can burrow down deeper into the grass. We’re delighted to see one, as the stoats cleared our meadow of voles for a few years, and they’re only starting to return.
https://theorkneynews.scot/2018/01/28/be-ware-of-stoats/
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From ‘Emergence’ Magazine….
Eco-Cultural Revitalization on the Klamath
by Ben Goldfarb
with photos by Kiliii Yüyan
On the Klamath River, which runs some 250 miles from Oregon’s high desert plateaus to meet the Pacific Ocean in Northern California, the arrival of migrating salmon each spring once marked a period of ecological and cultural renewal. But in the early twentieth century, this cycle was disrupted by the installation of a series of hydroelectric dams that severed the salmon’s passage from ocean to spawning grounds. The river, once vigorous with the annual return of salmon, which brought vital nutrients to the Native tribes, animals, and riparian forests along its banks, grew moribund, stripped of one of its most essential seasonal expressions.
Journalist Ben Goldfarb and photographer Kiliii Yüyan followed the winding course of the Klamath in the summer of 2024, as its four most obstructive dams were dismantled under a federal restoration plan set in motion by decades of Tribal and environmental advocacy. Since the dams have come down and the river set free, the Klamath has begun to remember its old, wild course, welcoming the return of a salmon season not seen for a century to nourish its ecosystem anew. Ben and Kilii chronicle how the prolonged absence of salmon has reshaped this waterway, the surrounding redwood forests and canyons, and the Yurok, Karuk, Hoopa, and Shasta tribes for whom this creature is not only sustenance, but sacred kin. A couple of months ago, Ben returned to the Klamath to witness the sudden torrent of fall-run salmon, and shares an update on how they are transforming life along the river.
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-river-reborn/
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